"Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In the 2000s, Caine appeared in ""Miss Congeniality"" (2000), ""Last Orders"" (2001), ""The Quiet American"" (2002), for which he was Oscar-nominated, and others. Several of Caine's classic films have been remade, including ""The Italian Job"", ""Get Carter"", ""Alfie"" and ""Sleuth"". In the 2007 remake of ""Sleuth"", Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier played in the 1972 version and Jude Law played Caine's original role. Caine is one of the few actors to have played a starring role in two different versions of the same film. In an interview with CNN, Law spoke of"
"Special"", as the producers used stock footage from ""A New Hope"". His other film appearances included ""The Body Stealers"" (1969), ""Twinky"" (1969), ""Villain"" (1971), ""The Ruling Class"" (1972), ""The Glitterball"" (1977), ""The Wild Geese"" (1978), ""Force 10 from Navarone"" (1978), ""Silver Dream Racer"" (1980) and ""Dead Man's Folly"" (1986). TV appearances in science fiction programmes include two ""Doctor Who"" stories, ""The War Games"" (1969) and ""The Face of Evil"" (1977), and as prison ship officer Raiker in the ""Blake's 7"" episode ""Spacefall"" (1978). He appeared in an episode of ""Midsomer Murders"" entitled ""Vixen’s Run"" and an episode of ""Minder"", ""You"
"Michael Caine filmography Michael Caine is an English actor who has appeared in over 125 films and has had multiple television appearances. Caine's acting career began in the 1950s, when he was cast in many small, often uncredited roles in British films. Caine gained recognition as one of the most famous actors of the 1960s through his breakthrough role in the film ""Zulu"" (1964). He then portrayed spy Harry Palmer in the films ""The Ipcress File"" (1965), ""Funeral in Berlin"" (1966) and ""Billion Dollar Brain"" (1967). His role in ""Sleuth"" (1972) led him to an Academy Award for Best Actor"
"Michael Caine and Shelley Winters. In the latter he played Harry Clamacraft, a man Alfie meets and befriends in a sanatorium. He starred in Roman Polanski's vampire film ""The Fearless Vampire Killers"" (1967) (British title ""The Dance of the Vampires"") as innkeeper Yoine Shagal with his daughter Sarah played by Sharon Tate. In the course of the film, he and his daughter become vampires. When a maid tries to scare him off with a crucifix, he responds with ""Oy, have ""you"" got the wrong vampire!"". Bass also appeared in the ""Pride"" segment of ""The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins"" (1971) and"
"Neame directed the festive favourite ""Scrooge"" (1970). ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971), based on Anthony Burgess' novella of the same name, starred Malcolm McDowell as Alex, the leader of a gang of thugs in a dystopian Britain. ""Get Carter"" (1971) features the eponymous London gangster Jack Carter (played by Michael Caine). The horror film ""The Wicker Man"" (1973), starring Christopher Lee, is considered a cult classic. In 1973 ""The Day of the Jackal"" starred Edward Fox as the ""Jackal"" (which was based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth). Nicolas Roeg's acclaimed psychological horror/thriller ""Don't Look Now"" was released in 1973. Two"
"""Believe in Me"" (1971), ""Every Little Crook and Nanny"" (1972), ""Westworld"" (1973), ""The Spikes Gang"" (1974), ""Chosen Survivors"" (1974), ""The Gravy Train"" (1974), ""Mixed Company"" (1974), ""Mastermind"" (1976), ""Baby Blue Marine"" (1976), ""Futureworld"" (1976), ""Greased Lightning"" (1977), ""Mean Dog Blues"" (1978), ""California Dreaming"" (1979), ""Ravagers"" (1979), ""Cloud Dancer"" (1980) and ""Loving Couples"" (1980). However the bulk of Karlin's work was in television. His compositions were nominated for the Emmy Award eleven times, and he won for ""The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"" in 1974. Other TV films included ""The Man Who Could Talk to Kids"" (1973), ""Born Innocent"" (1974), ""Bad"
"of the track, saying in a 2004 interview with ""The Independent"" that ""There are some bass lines that contain the whole mystery of creation within them"". Get Carter Get Carter is a 1971 British crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne and Bryan Mosley. The screenplay was adapted by Hodges from Ted Lewis's 1969 novel ""Jack's Return Home"". Producer Michael Klinger optioned the book and made a deal for the ailing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studio to finance and release the film, bringing in Hodges and Caine. Caine became a co-producer of the"
"Cellar"" (1989), ""Bed & Breakfast"" (1992), ""Inferno"" (1999). He also co-starred in the acclaimed television movie ""My Sweet Charlie"" (1970), and appeared in other TV movies such as ""A Howling in the Woods"" (1971) and ""The Stranger Who Looks Like Me"" (1974). He guest-starred on many television series, including ""The Adventures of Kit Carson"", ""Bonanza"", ""The Invaders"", ""The Brothers Brannagan"" (in the 1961 series finale ""The Hunter and the Hunted""), ""The Tall Man"", ""Stoney Burke"", ""Daniel Boone"", ""Gunsmoke"",""The Wild Wild West"", ""Empire"", ""Dundee and the Culhane"", ""Baa Baa Black Sheep"", ""How the West was Won (aka The Macahans)"", ""The Untouchables"","
"Get Carter Get Carter is a 1971 British crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne and Bryan Mosley. The screenplay was adapted by Hodges from Ted Lewis's 1969 novel ""Jack's Return Home"". Producer Michael Klinger optioned the book and made a deal for the ailing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studio to finance and release the film, bringing in Hodges and Caine. Caine became a co-producer of the film. ""Get Carter"" was Hodges' first feature film as director, as well as being the screen debut of Alun Armstrong. MGM was scaling back its European"
"at Nuremberg"" (1961), ""Brushfire"" (1962), ""The Man from the Diner's Club"" (1963), ""Pressure Point"" (1962) and ""Alvarez Kelly"" (1966). He also appeared in ""1776"" as delegate from New York, Lewis Morris. He co-starred with Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons in ""Watermelon Man"" (1970). He was also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He acted in more than 750 live and filmed television programs, including the western series, ""The Californians"", ""Two Faces West,"" and ""The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters"". Caine is most commonly remembered for his recurring role (37 episodes) as Major Hochstetter on the 1960s"
"adaptations. The 1951 film version, starring Michael Redgrave as Crocker-Harris, won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, one for Rattigan's screenplay, the other for Redgrave's performance. It was remade in 1994, starring Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands and young Ben Silverstone. A British television version was made in 1955, starring Peter Cushing as Crocker-Harris. John Frankenheimer directed John Gielgud in a 1959 television version for CBS. In 1960, Maurice Evans repeated his Broadway role for CBC television under the sponsorship of Ford of Canada in their Startime series. Another made-for-TV version in 1985 starred"
"(1965), ""The Knack ...and How to Get It"" (1965), the Michelangelo Antonioni film ""Blowup"" (1966), ""Alfie"" (1966), """" (1966), ""Georgy Girl"" (1966), ""The Jokers"" (1967), ""Casino Royale"" (1967), ""Smashing Time"" (1967), ""To Sir, with Love"" (1967), ""Bedazzled"" (1967), ""Poor Cow"" (1967), ""I'll Never Forget What's'isname"" (1967), ""Up the Junction"" (1968), ""Joanna"" (1968), ""Otley"" (1968), ""The Magic Christian"" (1969), ""The Brain"" (1969), ""If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium"" (1969), and ""Performance"" (1970). The comedy films """" (1997) and """" (1999) resurrected the imagery but were filmed in Hollywood and the 2009 film ""The Boat That Rocked"". Swinging Sixties The Swinging"
"western ""Five Savage Men"". Returning to the United States in the mid-1970s, he co-starred with Frank Sinatra in ""Contract on Cherry Street"" (1977) and Charles Bronson in ""Love and Bullets"" (1979). He then signed on as the evil adversary Killer Kane in ""Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"" (1979). In the 1980s and 1990s, he appeared as the arrogant hunter Colonel Brock in ""Alligator"" (1980), a drug-addicted hitman in Burt Reynolds' ""Sharky's Machine"" (1981), a former prison warden-turned-enforcer in ""Escape from the Bronx"" (1983), which was lampooned on ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"", a comedy gangster in ""Cannonball Run II"" (1984)"
"were fresh and distinctive, but the films he made, including ""In Harm's Way"" (1965) and ""Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon"" (1970), became both critical and financial flops. Preminger's ""Hurry Sundown"" (1967) is a lengthy drama set in the U.S. South and was partly intended to break cinematic racial and sexual taboos. However, the film was poorly received and ridiculed for a heavy-handed approach, and for the dubious casting of Michael Caine as an American Southerner. ""Hurry Sundown"" signaled a decline in Preminger's reputation, as it was followed by several other films which were critical and commercial failures,"
"Kidnapped (1971 film) Kidnapped is a 1971 British adventure film, directed by Delbert Mann and starring Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins and Donald Pleasence, as well as a number of well-known British character actors. The film is based on the novel ""Kidnapped"" and the first half of the sequel ""Catriona"" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Young David Balfour arrives at a bleak Scottish house, the House of Shaws, to claim his inheritance after his father. The house and land have been under the custodianship of his father's brother, Ebeneezer Balfour, but on reaching adulthood, the land and property become David's."
"with subsequent acting roles including ""The Twilight Zone"" episode ""Young Man's Fancy"" in 1962; two westerns, ""The Savage Guns"" (1962) and ""Gunfighters of Casa Grande"" (1964); Roger Corman's ""Bloody Mama"" (1969), based on the life of Ma Barker, and the independently mede religious horror ""The Night God Screamed"". Second-billed to star Jeanne Crain, he portrayed her husband, a small-time evangelist whose death at film's midpoint occurs through crucifixion by religious fanatics led by a charismatic guru styled upon Charles Manson, whose 1969 cult murders were still fresh in the public's mind during the film's production in 1971. Nicol later worked"
"Charlie Croker that they have come to an agreement to ""divide Europe"" and that the gold must be given back to the Italians. Since 2000, there have been two remakes of the film. The first was released in 2003 and also called ""The Italian Job"", set in Los Angeles and starring Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker. It features Donald Sutherland as John Bridger, played as more of a father figure to Croker. It employs the updated Mini Cooper for a chase towards the end. An official Bollywood remake of the 2003 film, called ""Players"", was released in 2012. There is"
"Charles Dickens's ""Great Expectations"" (1861). It has been recently featured on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels: No. 71 on the Readers' List and 93 on the Critics' List. The novel was adapted for film with a screenplay by Fowles, directed by Guy Green, and released in 1968. It starred Michael Caine as Nicholas Urfe, Anthony Quinn as Maurice Conchis, Anna Karina as Alison, Candice Bergen as Lily/Julie, and Julian Glover as Anton. It was filmed in the island of Majorca. The adaptation was generally considered a failure as film. Caine said that it was one of the"
"Ronald"" (1974), ""The Dream Makers"" (1975), """" (1976), """" (1977), ""The Death of Richie"" (1977), ""Minstrel Man"" (1977, for which he received an NAACP Image Award), ""The Hostage Heart"" (1977), ""Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A."" (1977), ""Lucan"" (1978), """" (1979), ""Vampire"" (1979), """" (1980), ""Miracle on Ice"" (1981), ""Bitter Harvest"" (1981), ""Inside the Third Reich"" (1982), ""Baby Sister"" (1983), ""Dadah Is Death"" (1988), ""Murder C.O.D."" (1990), ""Her Wicked Ways"" (1991) and ""The Secret"" (1992). Karlin wrote three books about film composition, ""On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring"" (1990), ""Listening to Movies: The Film Lover's Guide to Film"
"Jackson. During this period he also composed and arranged for documentaries, the Radio City Music Hall orchestra, and television commercials. In 1962, Karlin scored a record album for Columbia of extracts from the comic strip ""Peanuts"", performed by actress Kaye Ballard as Lucy and songwriter Arthur Siegel as Charlie Brown. The innovative score was performed by Karlin entirely on children's musical instruments and toys. Karlin began his film career with ""Up the Down Staircase"" in 1967. Following in quick succession were ""Yours, Mine and Ours"" (1968), ""The Stalking Moon"" (1968), ""The Sterile Cuckoo"" (1969), ""The Baby Maker"" (1970), ""Cover Me"
"for electronic instruments (Rod Serling's ""Night Gallery""). His credits spanned over 100 film works including ""The Andromeda Strain"" (1971), ""The Organization"" (1971), ""Bone"" (1972), ""You'll Like My Mother"" (1972), ""The Savage is Loose"" (1974), ""The Ultimate Warrior"" (1975), ""Embryo"" (1976), ""The Sentinel"" (1977), ""Starship Invasions"" (1977), ""Borderline"" (1980), ""Blood Beach"" (1981) and ""The Last Chase"" (1981), and TV movies such as ""My Sweet Charlie"" (1970), ""That Certain Summer"" (1972), ""The Judge and Jake Wyler"" (1972), ""A Cold Night's Death"" (1973), ""The President's Plane Is Missing"" (1973), """" (1973), ""The Questor Tapes"" (1974), ""Killdozer!"" (1974), ""Death Scream"" (1975), ""A Vacation in"
"and Bobby Moore, the 1982 film ""Deathtrap"", and the 1986 Academy Award-nominated ""Mona Lisa"". In 1987, Caine narrated ""Hero"", the official film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also starred in ""Without a Clue"", portraying Sherlock Holmes and also acted as Chief Insp. Frederick Abberline in the 1988 TV series ""Jack the Ripper"". In the 1990s, Caine found good parts harder to come by. He played the mysterious bartender Mike in ""Mr. Destiny"" in 1990. A high point came when he played Ebenezer Scrooge in the critically acclaimed ""The Muppet Christmas Carol"" (1992). He played the beleaguered stage director"
"supposed to be the next big movie star. She ended up making a string of films that were supposed to be blockbusters but didn't even bust a balloon, much less a block."" She appeared in the 1967 Paul Newman film ""Hombre"" and the 1969 version of ""The Italian Job"" as Michael Caine's girlfriend, as well as ""Waterhole No. 3"" (1967) starring James Coburn. Blye appeared with Coburn again in the 1975 film ""Hard Times"". Her other movie roles included ""The Sporting Club"" (1971), """" (1977), the third film about the life of Sheriff Buford Pusser, and the horror film, ""The"
"Boone, Trail Blazer"" (1957), ""The Cyclops"" (1957) and ""The Alligator People"" (1959). Chaney established himself as a favorite of producer Stanley Kramer; in addition to playing a key supporting role in ""High Noon"" (1952) (starring Gary Cooper), he also appeared in ""Not as a Stranger"" (1955)—a hospital melodrama featuring Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra—and ""The Defiant Ones"" (1958, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier). Kramer told the press at the time that whenever a script came in with a role too difficult for most actors in Hollywood, he called Chaney. One of his best known roles was a 1952 live"
"66"", ""Alcoa Premiere"", ""The Untouchables"" (in an episode guest starring Lee Marvin), ""The Doctors and the Nurses"",""Wide Country"", ""Death Valley Days"" (twice) and ""Dr. Kildare"". Caan's first film was ""Irma la Douce"" (1963), in which he had an uncredited bit as a sailor. He guest starred on ""Ben Casey"", ""Combat!"" (playing a German soldier), and ""Kraft Suspense Theatre"". In 1964, he starred as Jewish athlete Jeff Brubaker in the episode ""My Son, the All-American"" of ""Channing"", a drama about college life. His first substantial film role was as a punk hoodlum in the 1964 thriller ""Lady in a Cage"", which"
"and actor Michael Caine (in their maturity), who played the role of Fowler in the film production of ""The Quiet American"" of that year. In 1961, he became chief Washington correspondent (later American editor) of ""The Times"". He developed a profound understanding of and sympathy for the United States over a decade of intense political and social upheaval. By-lined in ""The Times"" from 1965, he became an influential and popular commentator on American affairs in Britain. He was the first to alert the world that President John F Kennedy had sent US combat troops to Vietnam. He accompanied Rev Martin"
""""" (1961); Dice Player in ""Echo Four Two"" (1961); Lapie in ""Maigret"" (1961); ""Citizen James""; Honest Arthur in ""Suspense"" (1963); First Driver / Court Usher in ""Bootsie and Snudge"" (1963); Innkeeper in ""Richard the Lionheart"" (1963); Mac / Birdie in ""The Saint"" (1964–68); Mr. Crogan in ""Beggar My Neighbour"" (1967); Samuels in ""Out of the Unknown"" (1969); Christofis in ""Christ Recrucified"" (1969); Noony in ""A Cuckoo in the Nest"" (1970) and Will in ""Play for Today"" (1970). His roles in the BBC comedy series ""Dad's Army"" include Henry the Milkman in Museum Piece (1968) and the Small Man in Man"
"Roger Moore, Stephen Fry, Ewan McGregor, Dame Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, David Walliams, Charlotte Rampling and Paul McKenna. Caine was cast in a spoken cameo role in Christopher Nolan's 2017 action-thriller ""Dunkirk"" (2017), based on the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, as a Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot, as a nod to his role of RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in ""Battle of Britain"" (1969). Caine is regarded as a British cultural icon, with Mairi Mackay of CNN stating: ""Michael Caine has been personifying British cool since the swinging sixties. He has brought some of British cinema's most"
"Michael Caine spy thriller ""The Whistle Blower"" (1986), director Ridley Scott's thriller ""The Counsellor"" (2013), and crime drama ""The Infiltrator"" (2016) starring Bryan Cranston. Marvel superhero film """" (2013) includes scenes filmed on the site of the old EMI complex on Blyth Road, Hayes. Brad Pitt caused a stir in Hayes in November 2012 when filming scenes for horror film ""World War Z"" (2013) at locations off Hayes End Road; the actor reportedly dined at Tommy Flynn’s Bar and Diner, on Wood End Green Road. Keira Knightley returned to Hayes to co-star with Benedict Cumberbatch in British-American thriller ""The Imitation"
"include: ""Minder"" in the Series 1 episode ""Come in T-64, Your Time Is Ticking Away"" (1979), ""Casualty"" (1996), ""Lovejoy"" (1994), ""London's Burning"" (2002), ""Doctors"" (2002; 2005), ""The Bill"" (2006), ""Crocodile Shoes II"" (2006), ""The Line of Beauty"" (2006), ""Holby City"" (2006), ""Dream Team"" (2002), ""Afterlife"" (2005) and the television drama ""Angel Cake"" (2006). He has also appeared in several films, including the 1977 film ""Black Joy"", where he played loan shark Jomo, and the 2005 Tim Burton adaptation of ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", where he played the shopkeeper in whose shop Charlie Bucket finds the final Golden Ticket. In"
"gangster drama ""Get Carter"" (1971) starring Michael Caine. Alfred Hitchcock returned to Britain to shoot ""Frenzy"" (1972), Other productions such as Richard Attenborough's ""Young Winston"" (1972) and ""A Bridge Too Far"" (1977) met with mixed commercial success. The British horror film cycle associated with Hammer Film Productions, Amicus and Tigon drew to a close, despite attempts by Hammer to spice up the formula with added nudity and gore. Although some attempts were made to broaden the range of British horror films, such as with ""The Wicker Man"" (1973), these films made little impact at the box office, In 1976, British"
"Play Dirty Play Dirty is a 1969 British war film starring Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green and Harry Andrews. It was director Andre DeToth's last film, based on a screenplay by Melvyn Bragg and Lotte Colin. The film's story is inspired by the exploits of units such as the Long Range Desert Group, Popski's Private Army and the SAS in North Africa during World War II. During the North African Campaign in World War II, Captain Douglas (Caine) is a British Petroleum employee seconded to the Royal Engineers to oversee incoming fuel supplies for the British 8th Army. Colonel"
"Young Ones""). His brief dip into the kitchen sink realism movement produced ""The Leather Boys"", which in addition to showcasing the period's rocker subculture, is considered groundbreaking due to its latent homosexual themes. It has since become a recognized as a key entry in the queer cinema subgenre. His major breakthrough came in 1964 when he directed the spy film ""The Ipcress File"". Intended as a direct response to the popularity of the James Bond franchise, the film showcased a darker, and more downbeat portrayal of espionage. Its lead character Harry Palmer (played by Michael Caine) has become iconic, and"